Abstract: There is provided a cutting insert used for both drilling and turning. The cutting insert includes an insert main body having a front surface and a rear surface, the outline shapes of which are parallelogram shapes, peripheral side surfaces disposed on four sides of the insert main body, cutting edges provided on respective intersecting ridge lines between the front surface and the peripheral side surface and between the rear surface and the peripheral side surface of the insert main body, and a hole provided in the insert main body to incline with respect to the front surface and the rear surface, the hole being usable for attachment.

Abstract: Disclosed is a data delivery control system capable of allowing for data delivery to a large number of client terminal devices without imposing a heavy load on the network by flexibly dealing with the network configuration. The data delivery control system includes at least one second client terminal device among a plurality of client terminal devices and a data delivery control device. The second client terminal device includes a terminal detection unit that detects at least one logically proximate first client terminal device to which delivery data received from a server device can be transferred, and a terminal-to-terminal data transfer unit that transfers the delivery data to the at least one first client terminal device. The data delivery control device includes a data delivery unit that delivers the delivery data to the at least one second client terminal device.

Abstract: In the system, the image forming apparatus includes a unit that sends the status information of the image forming apparatus to the management server, and a unit that requests the web service provided by the service server to register device information, and the service server includes a unit that register and manage user information of a user of the web service provided by the service server, a unit that, in response to a request from the image forming apparatus, registers the device information of the image forming apparatus and user information managed in association with each other, and a unit that issues, to the user of the image forming apparatus that is registered with the web service, a notification related to the image forming apparatus, using the status information provided by the management server.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to be able to execute motor assist only when it is necessary at a time of starting an engine, and drive a motor efficiently. An engine 10 includes a starter motor 34 for aiding in starting, and performs motor assist by the starter motor 34 in accordance with necessity when the engine is to start independently by combustion. An ECU 50 predicts a torque T1 that is generated in an initial explosion cylinder at a time of starting before actual combustion, and performs independent starting without driving the motor 34, when the prediction torque T1 is a starting request torque Ts1 or more. When the prediction torque T1 is less than the starting request torque Ts1, the ECU 50 drives the motor 34 and performs starting by motor assist. Thereby, power consumption of a battery and the like can be suppressed by decreasing wasteful drive of the motor, and the starter motor 34 can be efficiently driven while startability is secured.

Abstract: Disclosed is a data delivery control system capable of allowing for data delivery to a large number of client terminal devices without imposing a heavy load on the network by flexibly dealing with the network configuration. The data delivery control system includes at least one second client terminal device among a plurality of client terminal devices and a data delivery control device. The second client terminal device includes a terminal detection unit that detects at least one logically proximate first client terminal device to which delivery data received from a server device can be transferred, and a terminal-to-terminal data transfer unit that transfers the delivery data to the at least one first client terminal device. The data delivery control device includes a data delivery unit that delivers the delivery data to the at least one second client terminal device.

Abstract: An embodiment of this invention is directed to reading an original at a high resolution with high quality by an image reading apparatus using a 3-line CCD and white LED. The image reading apparatus according to the embodiment includes a 3-line CCD, a white LED, and a light guide configured to guide light from the LED to an original. A surface of the light guide from which light emerges toward the original is formed into a concave shape. Light from the light guide almost uniformly irradiates the reading region of an image placed on a platen glass.

Abstract: An image forming system comprises a portable terminal includes a communication interface for carrying out communication and a storage device for storing a utilization policy recorded a function which can be utilized by a user and an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image on a recording medium, a communication interface for carrying out the communication, a function table for storing a setting which can be utilized by each function and a control unit for retrieving the function table according to the utilization policy received from the portable terminal, generating capability information that the function which should be provided is selected and sending the capability information to the portable terminal, wherein the portable terminal generates a user interface according to the received capability information.

Abstract: An embodiment of this invention is directed to reading an original at a high resolution with high quality by an image reading apparatus using a 3-line CCD and white LED. The image reading apparatus according to the embodiment includes a 3-line CCD, a white LED, and a light guide configured to guide light from the LED to an original. A surface of the light guide from which light emerges toward the original is formed into a concave shape. Light from the light guide almost uniformly irradiates the reading region of an image placed on a platen glass.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium, a communication interface configured to connect with a network and a control unit configured to stop sending an advertising packet indicating the existence thereof if an aggregate server for storing documents is detected based on the advertising packet received via the communication interface.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to be able to execute motor assist only when it is necessary at a time of starting an engine, and drive a motor efficiently. An engine 10 includes a starter motor 34 for aiding in starting, and performs motor assist by the starter motor 34 in accordance with necessity when the engine is to start independently by combustion. An ECU 50 predicts a torque T1 that is generated in an initial explosion cylinder at a time of starting before actual combustion, and performs independent starting without driving the motor 34, when the prediction torque T1 is a starting request torque Ts1 or more. When the prediction torque T1 is less than the starting request torque Ts1, the ECU 50 drives the motor 34 and performs starting by motor assist. Thereby, power consumption of a battery and the like can be suppressed by decreasing wasteful drive of the motor, and the starter motor 34 can be efficiently driven while startability is secured.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium, a communication interface configured to connect with a network and a control unit configured to stop sending an advertising packet indicating the existence thereof if an aggregate server for storing documents is detected based on the advertising packet received via the communication interface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a printer driver device, including: a first memory unit that stores a kind of application used for creation of document data and page description language used as language at the time of printing the document data in association therewith; a determination unit that determines whether there is a need to rewrite the document data output from the application into the document data by separate page description language based on corresponding information between the kind of application and the page description language stored in the first memory unit; a first output unit that outputs the document data output from the application without changing the page description language, in response to the determination results of the determination unit; and a second output unit that rewrites and outputs the document data output from the application into the document data by the separate page description language, in response to the determination results of the determination unit.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a PDL job receiving unit for receiving a PDL job generated by use of a page description language, a print image forming unit for interpreting the PDL job and forming a print image, a compression unit for compressing the print image, a storage unit for storing the compressed image formed by the compression unit, a hybrid print demand receiving unit for receiving a hybrid print demand that demands the compressed image in the storage unit to be hybrid-printed, an expansion unit for expanding the compressed image, and a transmitting unit for transmitting the expanded image formed by the expansion unit to a printer engine.

Abstract: An image rasterizing apparatus according to the invention includes: an input unit configured to input an image file or image file information including first bitmap images that are drawn in accordance with a command and have different image attributes; a bitmap image generating unit configured to create a second bitmap image at least from the first bitmap image; and an attribute signal generating unit configured to search attribute information held by the first bitmap image on the basis of the command, then decide a data format of the first bitmap image in accordance with the attribute information, and generate an attribute signal indicating the decided data format. With the image rasterizing apparatus according to the invention, different attribute signals can be outputted in accordance with image attributes, from an image file including bitmap data having different image attributes.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an image processing technique that can separately apply, concerning a document image including plural objects, appropriate image processing to each of the objects included in the document image. An image processing method for applying image processing to a document image including plural objects includes: discriminating to which of plural kinds of predetermined layouts a layout of objects in a correction target document image corresponds; selecting, on the basis of the discriminated layout, predetermined image processing associated with positions and types of the respective objects in the discriminated layout; and applying the image processing selected for the types of the respective objects to the respective objects corresponding to the types in the correction target document image.

Abstract: A technique is provided that can realize improvement in memory access efficiency and reduction in the processing volume in interpolation calculation with respect to color conversion processing using a two- or more-dimensional lookup table.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus according to the present invention, an area dividing unit divides still image data into plural areas in two directions orthogonal to each other, an image-data arranging unit arranges, continuously in time series, plural image data corresponding to the plural areas included in the still image data, a compression encoding unit compression-encodes, using a moving image compression/expansion method, the plural image data corresponding to the plural areas arranged continuously in time series and generates a compression-encoded moving image signal, a decoding unit decodes, using the moving image compression/expansion method, the compression-encoded moving image signal and generates a decoded moving image signal, and a still-image-data generating unit generates still image data on the basis of the plural image data corresponding to the decoded moving image signal.

Abstract: A technique is provided that can realize improvement in memory access efficiency and reduction in the processing volume in interpolation calculation with respect to color conversion processing using a two- or more-dimensional lookup table. In a color conversion apparatus, in accordance with an n-dimensional lookup table that stores a color conversion value corresponding to each of division points dividing each color component axis in a first color space realized by n types (n is an integer of one or larger) of color components, into plural sections, and thereby dividing the first color space into plural areas, a color value of a point belonging to the first color space is converted to a color value of a point belonging to a second color space.

Abstract: To provide a technique that enables high-quality image forming processing regardless of the type of a color space in which colors of image data are represented without increasing a processing burden markedly.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a PDL job receiving unit for receiving a PDL job generated by use of a page description language, a print image forming unit for interpreting the PDL job and forming a print image, a compression unit for compressing the print image, a storage unit for storing the compressed image formed by the compression unit, a hybrid print demand receiving unit for receiving a hybrid print demand that demands the compressed image in the storage unit to be hybrid-printed, an expansion unit for expanding the compressed image, and a transmitting unit for transmitting the expanded image formed by the expansion unit to a printer engine.